Sunday Roast polite discussion thread.

[MrCurry]

Not wanting to offend the purists by posting to the Sunday roast thread on a Saturday but we had our roast today.

Well cooked pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots & onions, with some misshappen yorkshires and gravy. I know there are different schools of thought on roast potatoes. I’m in the parboil then cook low & long to get them crispy camp, so even if they look weird to you, that’s how we like them.

 

[nogojones]

Cavolo nero. I’ve bought some. Never had it before. Looks a bit green and challenging. Says to cut into strips and boil for 6 minutes. Any advances on that?!!

Blanch in boiling water for 2 mins, drain and fry in olive oil with lots of garlic and black pepper for a couple of mins, is my go to.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

RIGHT! (rubs insect legs together). We've had burgers. We've had FEBs. We've had pizzas.

This is for the great staple the Sunday roast. Any meats or veggy options. I'll start with a low bar.

Where's the roast potatoes and Yorkshire pudding? What about some green vegetables? Horseradish sauce and/or mustard?

Beef looks a bit overdone. Decent portion of gravy though.

4/10

 

[Saffy]

Not wanting to offend the purists by posting to the Sunday roast thread on a Saturday but we had our roast today.

Well cooked pigs in blankets, roast potatoes, parsnips, carrots & onions, with some misshappen yorkshires and gravy. I know there are different schools of thought on roast potatoes. I’m in the parboil then cook low & long to get them crispy camp, so even if they look weird to you, that’s how we like them.

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Looks good!

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

And if it had come as cauliflower I'd've been delighted, as:-

1. I like cauliflower
2. It is a vegetable
3. It was, as advertised, one of the four vegetables coming with the sunday roast

But it came as cauliflower cheese, which is, at best, a side dish

Since when had cauliflower cheese been part of a traditional roast dinner? I've noticed this over the past year or so, especially around Christmas, when lots of supermarkets adverts/promotional materials included images of cauliflower cheese or listed it as one of the items.

Since when? I mean, braised red cabbage I can get behind. I like that. But when you've got Brussels sprouts, carrots, parsnips, red cabbage, roast potatoes (and maybe mash too), there's no room on the plate for cauliflower cheese.

And then there's the thought of cheese sauce and gravy mingling and curdling. Bleurgh!

 

[Epona]

Since when had cauliflower cheese been part of a traditional roast dinner? I've noticed this over the past year or so, especially around Christmas, when lots of supermarkets adverts/promotional materials included images of cauliflower cheese or listed it as one of the items.

Since when? I mean, braised red cabbage I can get behind. I like that. But when you've got Brussels sprouts, carrots, parsnips, red cabbage, roast potatoes (and maybe mash too), there's no room on the plate for cauliflower cheese.

And then there's the thought of cheese sauce and gravy mingling and curdling. Bleurgh!

I was thinking it had come back into fashion lately - it was definitely a '90s thing that seems to have become more popular as late.

You may recall that period in the '90s when supermarkets really first started doing "luxury" range type pre-prepared stick the container in the oven type thing? They hadn't really existed other than in M&S before then. Pots of mash, trays of garlic roast spuds, shredded cabbage with a wadge of herb butter in it - and yes pots of cauli cheese were pushed alongside that as things to have as a side with your everything-prepped-ready-to-heat-up roast dinner. I recall having it a lot with roast dinners when eating out in that era too.

So I think it's come back into being rather than being a new thing. It's OK by me, I love cauli cheese and certainly don't mind it as a side on a roast dinner, or as the main item on a veggie roast dinner, but it's certainly not core or a requirement as a side dish.

 

[strung out]

Since when had cauliflower cheese been part of a traditional roast dinner? I've noticed this over the past year or so, especially around Christmas, when lots of supermarkets adverts/promotional materials included images of cauliflower cheese or listed it as one of the items.

Since when? I mean, braised red cabbage I can get behind. I like that. But when you've got Brussels sprouts, carrots, parsnips, red cabbage, roast potatoes (and maybe mash too), there's no room on the plate for cauliflower cheese.

And then there's the thought of cheese sauce and gravy mingling and curdling. Bleurgh!

Cauliflower cheese far nicer and more Sunday roast appropriate than bloody mashed potato.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Never had cauli cheese or mash on a roast when growing up, but this mashed spud phenomenon, is it a regional thing? Up north?

 

[nogojones]

Never had cauli cheese or mash on a roast when growing up, but this mashed spud phenomenon, is it a regional thing? Up north?

Always had mashed spuds and on special occasions some roast ones with a roast growing up. I think it might be more an Irish thing, because we had mash with almost every meal.

 

[Leafster]

Never had cauli cheese or mash on a roast when growing up, but this mashed spud phenomenon, is it a regional thing? Up north?

Another southerner here, never had mash with a roast growing up either. But seeing all the onions on the thread was the bigger surprise.

 

[Epona]

Another southerner here, never had mash with a roast growing up either. But seeing all the onions on the thread was the bigger surprise.

Same re. the mashed spud, never done it and wouldn't have even considered it.

Onions fine when in the roasting tin to flavour the meat juices for gravy, never seen them served up with a roast dinner.

 

[Leafster]

Same re. the mashed spud, never done it and wouldn't have even considered it.

Onions fine when in the roasting tin to flavour the meat juices for gravy, never seen them served up with a roast dinner.

Now you mention it, I remember onions being put in the roasting tin or inside a bird for flavour. It was them being served up on the plate which surprised me.

 

[AnnaKarpik]

Always had mashed spuds and on special occasions some roast ones with a roast growing up. I think it might be more an Irish thing, because we had mash with almost every meal.

Same with us, every main meal featured mashed potato unless we were getting beans on toast or crisp sandwiches.

 

[iona]

Pot roast, not a proper roast roast, so doesn't technically qualify for the thread I know but it was still good. Roasted onions were a hit with everyone except the northerner.

 

[danny la rouge]

Pot roast, not a proper roast roast, so doesn't technically qualify for the thread I know but it was still good. Roasted onions were a hit with everyone except the northerner.
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That would count in my world.

 

[iona]

That would count in my world.

It definitely counted as far as my stomach's concerned but for FEB-thread-esque pedantry porpoises it's a grey area
somewhere between a roast and a stew

Made extra yorkshire pudding batter so I'm gonna have another one with jam in a bit for second pudding

 

[spitfire]

* burp *

Made by Mlle Fire, very nice indeed.

 

[xsunnysuex]

Pot roast, not a proper roast roast, so doesn't technically qualify for the thread I know but it was still good. Roasted onions were a hit with everyone except the northerner.
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That looks proper yummy. Would be even better if it lost the broccoli.

 

[krtek a houby]

Always had mashed spuds and on special occasions some roast ones with a roast growing up. I think it might be more an Irish thing, because we had mash with almost every meal.

Same. Christmas dinner would often include roast and mash potato.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Getting my roasting tins out tomorra for a traditional roast chicken with roasties, carrots, cabbage, stuffing, bread sauce & gravy

 

[Epona]

Not on a Sunday, but I had a "mini-roast" yesterday (preferable when done for 1 person rather than using a whole chicken as leftover roast chicken can get a bit dry when used as leftovers).

Roast chicken thighs (skin-on, bone-in - the skin rubbed with salt and oil so it went all lovely and crispy, you get quite a nice lot of skin on the thighs and so lovely when it is crisped up while the meat stays lovely and moist), small crispy roast spuds, steamed broccoli and stuffing balls.

Am unwell, made the stuffing balls using a small pack of Morrison's "savers" sage & onion with added butter and marmite and a bit of dried oregano, and with veg stock instead of water - easy to turn a fairly "meh" packet of dried stuffing into something quite nice.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

Photo before I poured on lashings of home made gravy

 

[Epona]

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It all looks good, but especially want to compliment the roast spuds - lovely job!

 

[Mr.Bishie]

It all looks good, but especially want to compliment the roast spuds - lovely job!

Thanks! My standard method of par boiling, left to go cold, then roasted in duck fat.

 

[Mr.Bishie]

What I love most about a Sunday roast, is having a Monday roast. I par boil double the amount of spuds. Just need to to do carrots, cabbage, bread sauce & roast the spuds. Microwave to heat the chicken, stuffing & gravy

 

[moomoo]

We usually have cauliflower cheese with our roasts. The kids insist on it.

 

[contadino]

Pot roast, not a proper roast roast, so doesn't technically qualify for the thread I know but it was still good. Roasted onions were a hit with everyone except the northerner.
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Outstanding. If it were Eurovision, that'd be "Dix points!"

 

[Mr.Bishie]

We usually have cauliflower cheese with our roasts. The kids insist on it.

A side of cauliflower cheese is ok with me now, (pub/restaurant sides) but certainly not an element of the traditional Sunday roast - it was a meal in its own right when I was a kid!

 

[8ball]

We usually have cauliflower cheese with our roasts. The kids insist on it.

I like to take credit for the modern innovation of Yorkshire pudding with Christmas dinner.

 

[Ming]

Yorkie filled with beef and mash. Pretty good as it goes.